Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, 1 November | Event in Ann Arbor | AllEvents

Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen

The Ark - Ann Arbor

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Sat, 01 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm

316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

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Sat, 01 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm (EDT)

316 S Main St, Michigan 48104

314 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2108, United States

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Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
Featuring Robbie Schaefer & Danielle Wertz

“Two singer-songwriters sit on the edge of a cliff…”
With these words, we are drawn into the world of Both Sides Now - a theatrical concert that explores the music and lives of long-time friends and one-time lovers, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Created by, and starring Robbie Schaefer and Danielle Wertz, the cabaret-style performance traverses decades alongside songs such as A Case of You, Hallelujah, Big Yellow Taxi, Suzanne, and many more. Both Sides Now is at once a piece of the 60’s and 70’s, and of right now -- offering us a story about the messiness of being human, of lives persistently lived at the edge of growth, and of finding the courage to turn toward one another, again and again.

Robbie Schaefer
Robbie is a rabbi, singer-songwriter and theatre/film artist. The guitarist and songwriter for the indie folk band Eddie From Ohio has several solo releases as well, including the 2023 single Under the Sun.
He is currently at work on a new musical, The Blue Poppy, an Irish-Jewish ghost story written in collaboration with Scottish playwright Grace Barnes, and Songs From The Wilderness, a new album of Jewish musical midrash (interpretation), due for release in early 2026.

Danielle Wertz
Danielle is a storyteller, collaborator, jazz musician, composer and arranger. After being named a 2015 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition semi-finalist, Danielle independently released her debut album, Intertwined, which ranked #4 on Capital Bop's list of "Best DC Jazz Albums of 2017." That same year she placed 2nd in the Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition and 3rd in the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Vocal Competition.
In 2023 Danielle released her sophomore album, Other Side. With this project she made a quantum leap as a composer and conceptualist. The album pairs her original compositions with carefully crafted arrangements of standards from the Great American Songbook. Jazziz called the album “expressive and polished” and Jazz Weekly noticed a “Joni Mitchell’d tenderness to her material.”


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Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, 1 November | Event in Ann Arbor | AllEvents
Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
Sat, 01 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm